James Hoyt
military personnel
- May 16, 1925 · Oxford
- August 11, 2008 · Oxford
- 83 years
About James Hoyt
James Hoyt, 83, American soldier, member of the Buchenwald liberation team.
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|James Francis Hoyt (May 16, 1925 – August 11, 2008) was one of the four American soldiers who discovered the Buchenwald concentration camp. According to military records, Hoyt, then a private first class, was part of a group of four members of the 6th Armored Division, who were the first Americans to discover Buchenwald on April 11, 1945.
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